Facebook Surpasses 1 Billion Active Users

In a Facebook post this morning, Thursday Oct. 4, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg reported that his legendary social network
passed a major milestone. “This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month,” he wrote. “If you are reading this: thank you for giving me and
my little team the honor of serving you,” he says. Vowing to work to improve the serve, he envisioned including someday “the rest of the world too.”

Perhaps demonstrating the
massive scale Facebook has achieved, Zuckerberg’s post received nearly 300,000 “likes” within an hour of its posting early this morning.

A federal judge has granted Google's request for an order enjoining Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from following enforcing a subpoena for “millions” of documents relating to copyright infringement by outside companies. The preliminary injunction, issued on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate in Jackson, Miss., stays Hood's ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to impose net neutrality rules that prohibit broadband providers from blocking or degrading traffic and from creating online fast lanes. “Today history is being made by a majority of this commission as we vote for a fast, fair and open internet,” Chairman Tom ...

Representatives for a group of young children are appealing a judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Google and Viacom of violating a federal video privacy law. The notice of appeal, which was filed this week with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, doesn't offer details about the potential arguments ...

When approaching multicultural consumer segments, marketers shouldn’t go thinking about “50 Shades of Skin,” according to Xavier Turpin, Director of Multicultural Marketing at Dunkin Brands. “It’s wrong to label all these segments based on skin color,” Turpin told attendees of MediaPost’s Engage: Hispanics conference, on Tuesday. “What’s more important is ...

Programmatic may yield too low cost per thousand prices for many publishers. Still, others who even sell premium video inventory find value. During a OMMA Miami panel, Daren Trousdell, founder/chief executive officer of OneUp Sports says: “Programmatic is a lead-generation tool for us; we can see who is bidding on ...

Audi of America has tapped San Francisco-based MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER as its social media agency. Audi says it choose the agency Audi after seeing their work for clients like Netflix, Golden State Warriors, and Slavery Footprint.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said on Monday that he will propose that the agency declare broadband service a utility, in order to enact “the strongest open internet protections” in the agency's history. “These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said on Monday that he will propose invalidating state restrictions on municipal broadband networks. “Many communities have found that existing private-sector broadband deployment or investment fails to meet their needs,” he said today in a statement. “They should be able to make their own ...

Faced with pressure from lawmakers, Verizon said on Friday that it will allow its mobile customers to opt out of a controversial tracking program. The move means that Verizon's customers will be able to direct the company to stop inserting tracking headers -- known as UIDHs -- into their mobile ...

Steve Smith is the Editorial Director, Events at MediaPost where he oversees all OMMA and Insider Summit event content. He is also the longtime Mobile Insider/MoBlog columnist for Mobile Marketing Daily. A recovering academic who taught media studies at Brown and University of Virginia, he spent the last decade as a digital media critic for numerous publications and as a digital strategy consultant. He also writes for Media Industry Newsletter and eContent magazine. Contact him here.